All WG: Sprint Sync Thread #516

will-corcoran · 2023-10-15T16:02:06Z

will-corcoran
Oct 15, 2023
Maintainer

Sprint 7 ➡️ 8: October 17th, 2023

🧭 Emoji Legend

⛓️ == Blockchain / Nakamoto WG
💻 == Clarity Wasm WG
📝 == Clarity WG
🫂 == Quality of Life
🔄 == sBTC WG
🤹 == Ecosystem Project Management

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🫂 Quality of Life (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

🧘‍♀️ Sprint Sync TL;DR

✅ Sprint 7: Unlocks

⛓️ 🔄 📝 Nakamoto sBTC SIP ( s/o @jcnelson @EmbeddedAndroid @AshtonStephens @diwakergupta @friedger @setzeus @radicleart )
⛓️ HTTP refactor (nearly done!) (s/o @jcnelson @kantai @jferrant @wileyj @obycode )
💻 Major refactoring merged AND completed sha256 (s/o @Acaccia ), print AND initial contract-call? implementation
💻 Added @csgui! Welcome!
📝 Clarity contracts finished early-on for DR v0.1 AND great progress on a Clarity-Bitcoin-v5 (s/o @setzeus, @friedger @MarvinJanssen @FriendsFerdinand )
🫂 Merged testing docs (@wileyj ) AND v1 of sBTC docs, e2e tutorial, local dev environment ( @kenrogers ) AND sBTC contract property testing ( @moodmosaic ) AND sBTC integration pipeline AND sBRC node testing framework ( @wileyj @EmbeddedAndroid )
🔄 Shipped DR -> Prod AND stacks.js sBTC API ( @janniks ) AND resolving API connection issues ( @stjepangolemac ) AND documentation updates ( @friedger )

🚢 Sprint 8: Shipping Goals

⛓️ Mockamoto Milestone Complete (Oct 17th)
💻 70% expressions AND finish refactor AND A-B tester configuration
📝 Storage Contracts for Nakamoto + sBTC (stacker-db.clar & sbtc-db.clar) AND PoX-4
🫂 Ship a KILLER hackathon + several talks ( @KeewenawSTX @will-at-stacks ) AND migrate sBTC tests to Clarinet SDK AND CI for sBTC integration tests
🔄 Complete finalization of DR (never to be touched again) AND finalize sBTC SIP AND clear ownership model for sBTC Prod

🚢 Add'l: Shipping Goals

⛓️ Nakamoto v1 Release Candidate (Dec 31st)

🥅 Sprint 8: Teamwork Goals

⛓️ 🔄 📝 💻 🫂 Mental shift DR -> Nakamoto
⛓️ 🔄 📝 💻 🫂 Support @AshtonStephens & @EmbeddedAndroid with roadmaps (Nov 10th)
⛓️ 🔄 📝 💻 🫂 Review PRs you are tagged on ASAP!!!
⛓️ 🫂 Improved "Smoke Testing" plan
📝 Moar tutorial contracts

🚨 Blockers

⛓️ Getting things to compile with LLVM
⛓️ @EmbeddedAndroid getting up to speed on the stacks blockchain
💻 Clarinet integration is still blocked on separating wasmtime from clarity crate
🔄 🫂 Potential for bugs in code limiting further development of docs by @kenrogers
🔄 🫂 DR support and last minute fixes could hold back timelines.

📢 Shoutouts

⛓️ Nakamoto WG:

@jcnelson and @kantai for pushing the Nakamoto chain state and Nakamoto block PRs
@xoloki, @jferrant, and @soju-drinker for the great signer work

💻 Clarity Wasm WG:

Welcome aboard, @csgui!
Great job finishing sha256 @Acaccia

📝 Clarity WG:

@friedger for momentum & cross-wg support
@MarvinJanssen & @FriendsFerdinand for a great job on Clarity-Bitcoin-v5

🫂 Quality of Life WG:

@EmbeddedAndroid for working with JW on node testing framework
@cuevasm for his help with Discussion Boards revamp

🔄 sBTC WG:

@stjepangolemac picking the sBTC work back up so quickly after getting covid
@friedger for finding many small and intricate ways to improve the sBTC effort that would never have gotten a ticket
@radicleart Improving the bridge api library so it can be used as a fallback for stacks.js
@CAGS295 reviewing sBTC changes quickly
@wileyj for ever present infrastructure support

will-corcoran · 2023-10-30T14:35:30Z

will-corcoran
Oct 30, 2023
Maintainer Author

Sprint 8 ➡️ 9: October 31st, 2023

Happy Whitepaper Day
Happy Halloween

🧭 Emoji Legend

⛓️ == Blockchain / Nakamoto WG
💻 == Clarity Wasm WG
📝 == Clarity WG
🫂 == Quality of Life
🔄 == sBTC WG
🤹 == Ecosystem Project Management

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🫂 Quality of Life (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

🧘‍♀️ Sprint Sync TL;DR

👉 Hosted a hackathon and a great conference in London (devnet + docs stress tested)
👉 sBTC Testnet up and running
👉 sBTC SIP group review complete (s/o @AshtonStephens ) link | link
👉 Mockamoto Node
👉 Clarity Wasm Refactor

✅ Sprint 8: Unlocks

⛓️ Nakamoto staging blocks PR Approved!
⛓️ Initial implementation of mockamoto stack-node mode : 1 Approval
⛓️ Nakamoto Coordinator : In Review
📝 SIP research review
📝 Clarity op_drop/commit-reveal poc
📝 Stacker-DB draft
🔄 sBTC hackathon completed
🔄 sBTC released on testnet
🔄 sBTC Romeo active development done
🔄 sBTC SIP Research has been completed: concluded research topics
💻 of all expressions implemented!
💻 for boot contract requirements
💻 Finished remaining major refactoring work
💻 All remaining expressions organized and issues opened

🚢 Sprint 9: Shipping Goals

⛓️ Mockamoto Readiness
⛓️ Nakamoto Testnet Readiness (12/31)
📝 Release Clarity-Bitcoin-v5
📝 sbtc-db.clar 1st draft
📝 stacker-db.clar 2nd draft
📝 sBTC open research questions answered
🔄 Finalized sBTC designs for individual components and features
🔄 Final sBTC timeline proposal
💻 Reach 90+% of expressions implemented
💻 Complete A-B tester configuration

🥅 Sprint 9: Teamwork Goals

⛓️ Nakamoto v1 SIP task breakdown
⛓️ Milestones from Now - Code Complete
⛓️ Exhaustive Testing Plan
🔄 Syncing work between sBTC / Nakamoto
📝 More frequent communication with signer-wg

🚨 Blockers

???

📢 Shoutouts

Everyone who tested the dev environment before the hackathon
@friedger and @radicleart for hacking away at getting the sBTC testnet up and running last week!
@AshtonStephens for leading SIP review
@soju-drinker @jcnelson @andrerserrano @friedger @FriendsFerdinand @xoloki @setzeus @stjepangolemac @radicleart and everyone else who was on the research meetings, great job and thanks for sticking in there and great research everyone!
@csgui congrats on merging your first PRs!
@cylewitruk for fighting through the issues with the A/B tester
@jcnelson and @kantai for the PRs and Reviews
@obycode for the quick turnaround on Reviews
@FriendsFerdinand for commit-reveal poc

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will-corcoran · 2023-10-30T14:36:51Z

will-corcoran
Oct 30, 2023
Maintainer Author

Sprint 9 ➡️ 10: November 14th, 2023

🧭 Emoji Legend

⛓️ == Blockchain / Nakamoto WG
💻 == Clarity Wasm WG
📝 == Clarity WG
🫂 == Quality of Life
🔄 == sBTC WG
🤹 == Ecosystem Project Management

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🫂 Quality of Life (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

🧘‍♀️ Sprint Sync TL;DR

@AshtonStephens great job facilitating and moderating SIP design and planning disucssions:
Nakamoto SIP Review Call Notes
sBTC Scoping and Milestone Planning

✅ Sprint 9: Unlocks

🚢 Sprint 10: Shipping Goals

🚢 Add'l: Shipping Goals

⛓️ Nakamoto v1 Release Candidate (Dec 31st)

🥅 Sprint 10: Teamwork Goals

🚨 Blockers

📢 Shoutouts

⛓️ Nakamoto WG:

💻 Clarity Wasm WG:

📝 Clarity WG:

🫂 Quality of Life WG:

🔄 sBTC WG:

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will-corcoran · 2023-11-13T19:38:08Z

will-corcoran
Nov 13, 2023
Maintainer Author

Sprint 10 ➡️ 11: November 28th, 2023

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🫂 Quality of Life (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

"Back in engineering mode after back-to-back sprints of mainly research, review & documentation for sBTC & Nakamoto respectively." - @setzeus

Project Planning

👉 Nakamoto 0.2 & 0.3 Issues Scoped (h/t Austin offsite)
👉 Stacks 3.0 detailed roadmap (h/t @saralab )
👉 Nakamoto 0.1 shipped!
👉 Nakamoto 0.2
👉 Nakamoto 0.3

Working Group Mindmap

⛓️ Nakamoto + Testing WG

✅ Sprint 10: Unlocks

First PR our for v 0.2 : In Review 🎉
Task breakdown for 0.2 , 0.3 and task allocation
Detailed Roadmap, nearly ready to share
MVP for Mainnet launch, scoped
Nakamoto Slack

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Aaron, Jude for for helping unblock Jacinta
Jacinta for her tenacity in getting the first v0.2 PR ready for review
Jesse for kicking of this discussion on testing

🥅 Sprint 11: Goals

Code Complete for v 0.2
Dec 31st : Testnet Readiness

🚨 Blockers

Time

📝 Clarity WG

✅ Sprint 10: Unlocks

Kicked-off: Nakamoto engineering which entails a strict focus on PoX-4/0.3 (Argon) issues.
PoX-4 activity: scaffolding, testing setup/discussion & providing signing keys progress

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@saralab for management, streamlining issues
@friedger for taking initiative on PoX-4 scaffolding
@moodmosaic for jumping into existing PoX rusts tests

🥅 Sprint 11: Goals

Kickoff all open issues/tickets for PoX-4/0.3 (Argon)
Close out at least 50% of tickets
Open fewer than 10 new tickets

🚨 Blockers

There was some blockage around which testing setup (rust vs. clarinet) is optimal.
-- No longer a problem as we are simply opting for both / greater test coverage on PoX-4

💻 Clarity Wasm WG

✅ Sprint 10: Unlocks

of all expressions implemented (remaining almost complete, excluding utf8)
🎶 Big progress on clarinet integration; expect to be completed very soon
0️⃣➡️1️⃣ Successfully replayed the genesis block in the A/B tester!
🏗️ Rebased our working stacks-core branch onto next
🚪 Early exit code path is fully defined and cleaned up, meaning that writing asserts!, try!, unwrap-err! should all go quickly
🆎 More improvements to the A/B tester framework to keep things as compact and straightforward as possible

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🤝 Great to bring another developer into the team @ameeratgithub
🙌 @Acaccia for always taking on the tough Wasm tasks

🥅 Sprint 11: Goals

Finish remaining Clarity function implementations
Resolve remaining missing pieces in the contract-call interface
Wrap up clarinet integration and complete developer release
Start cost-tracking

🚨 Blockers

None!

🔄 sBTC WG

✅ Sprint 10: Unlocks

sBTC is has been temporarily deprioritized in favor of prioritizing Nakamoto. As a result:

Finalization and communication of that has been the main action of the previous sprint
sBTC task breakdowns and refined design
Resource reallocation, confirmed!

🗣️ Shoutouts:

All ICs for putting together the task breakdowns and designs
@jferrant @soju-drinker @xoloki for the quick pivot to Nakamoto work

🥅 Sprint 11: Goals

Clear documented explanation of next steps for sBTC
Continued work with Nakamoto workstream

🚨 Blockers

Existing unknown unknowns around protocol design
Nakamoto needs to be finished for sBTC to be effective and tested

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will-corcoran · 2023-12-13T14:56:47Z

will-corcoran
Dec 13, 2023
Maintainer Author

Sprint 11 ➡️ 12: December 13th, 2023

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🫂 Quality of Life (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

🎉 👉 Public Roadmap here
👉 Nakamoto 0.2 (started the sprint at 20%!)
Clarity-Bitcoin Library on Mainnet 🎉 👉 Clarity WG
of all expressions used in boot contracts are implemented 🎉 👉 Clarity Wasm
of all expressions implemented (including utf8!) 👉 Clarity Wasm

⛓️ Nakamoto + Testing WG

✅ Unlocks:

All 0.2[Neon] PRs In Review 🎉
0.2 [Neon] : 80% Complete
CI Improvements

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Entire team for rallying towards code complete this week
Jesse for tackling multiple CI issues to unblock the team
Aaron, Matt for the extra hours to bring the neon node up locally
Jude, Jacinta for helping unblock multiple PRs

🥅 Goals:

0.3 Kick off
Nakamoto SIP Ready for Voting
Controlled Testnet Readiness
Kick off performance benchmarking
Dec 31st : Testnet Readiness

🚨 Blockers:

Not enough eggnog

📝 Clarity WG

✅ Unlocks:

Clarity-Bitcoin-v5 is now on Mainnet! 🚀
Progress on multiple Argon/PoX-4 PRs

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@MarvinJanssen for Stacker-DB design research & discussion
@friedger for deploying Clarity-Bitcoin-v5 & PoX-4 momentum
@jferrant overall time/energy w/ knowledge transfer

🥅 Goals:

5 - 8 PRs merged in for Argon/PoX-4
100% code coverage in Rust tests
100% code coverage in Clarinet tests
Open fewer than 10 new tickets

🚨 Blockers

none other than CI issues

💻 Clarity Wasm WG

✅ Unlocks:

of all expressions used in boot contracts are implemented 🎉
of all expressions implemented (including utf8!)
- Remaining are in progress and should reach 100% tomorrow
2️⃣2️⃣ PRs merged in clarity-wasm since the last sync! (not including clarinet and stacks-core PRs)
🎶 Clarinet integration
- 👩‍💻 clarinet console support is ready to release
- 🌐 clarinet integrate ready to move once Nakamoto Neon is ready
🤙 Completed proper handling of errors, rollbacks, etc. around function calls and contract calls

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🤠 @zone117x for tackling UTF8 support (we thought this would not be included in the first DR)
🥇 @ameeratgithub for his first merged PR, implementing sha512 in WebAssembly!
🎷 @hugocaillard for great work on Clarinet
🐞 @Acaccia for setting up new property testing - finding and fixing bugs on the way

🥅 Goals:

Finish up the last remaining bits of Clarity function support
Get clarinet integrate running with a stacks node supporting Clarity-Wasm
Build up testing capabilities
Continue to find and fix bugs

🚨 Blockers

Need a functional Nakamoto Neon node to complete clarinet integrate support for Clarity-Wasm

🔄 sBTC WG

✅ Unlocks:

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🥅 Goals:

🚨 Blockers:

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will-corcoran · 2023-12-27T15:35:18Z

will-corcoran
Dec 27, 2023
Maintainer Author

Sprint 12 ➡️ 13: December 27th, 2023

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🫂 Quality of Life (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

👉 Nakamoto 0.3
of all expressions implemented (including utf8!) 👉 Clarity Wasm

⛓️ Nakamoto + Testing WG

✅ Unlocks:

Controlled Testnet 1 with current Clarity VM : READY! 🎉
Controlled Testnet 2 with new Clarity Wasm : READY! 🎉
Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer🎉

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Entire team for ensuring Neon Testnet goes Live!
Charlie for working past multiple issues to ensure Testnets are Ready!
Matt for the multiple tests and envs he spun up to test , identify and help fix multiple bugs

🥅 Goals:

0.3 - P2P Readiness
Nakamoto SIP Readiness for Voting
Kick off performance benchmarking

🚨 Blockers:

🧪 Testing WG

✅ Unlocks:

Mutation Testing in action!🎉
Fuzzing : Initial setup is ready making great progress!

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Jesse for helping various testing efforts over the last few weeks
Alin for enabling the initial Mutation testing , huge step to improve quality of our tests!
Nikos for taking on fuzzing and spinning up an initial setup on a mock node!

🥅 Goals:

Kick off performance benchmarking
Running the fuzzer in a steady env
Long tailed mutation testing

📝 Clarity WG

We have an overall frustrating start to the sprint with multiple PRs opened that we struggled to deliver to standard & merge-in; additionally, the most important PR from a dependency perspective (Clarity/Clarinet-SDK scaffolding) was re-evaluated & extracted into a separate repository (stacks/test-tools).

✅ Unlocks:

New testing repository for CI-based Clarity/Clarinet-SDK testing in addition to Rust testing
First WG PR merged in (PoX-4 Remove PoX-Reject)

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@MarvinJanssen for Rust test contributions
@friedger for first WG merge in for Nakamoto
@wileyj for responsiveness / quickness on new testing repo

🥅 Goals:

Transfer / re-write all PoX tests from sbtc-mini in Clarinet-SDK/Clarity
Merge-in the big three confirmed design changes to PoX-4:

Register Signer Keys
Vote Process For Aggregate PubKey
Update & Read Signer Set

Open fewer than 5 new tickets
Kickoff

🚨 Blockers

None!

💻 Clarity Wasm WG

✅ Unlocks:

of all expressions implemented (including utf8!)
🎶 Clarinet pre-release supporting Clarity-Wasm in the console and in the devnet
🐞 Now in bug-squashing mode

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🎷 @hugocaillard for getting the Clarinet release out the door before the holidays!
🔍 @CharlieC3 for simplifying the docker image creation, getting the Clarity-Wasm testnet running, and reporting bugs
🆎 @cylewitruk for making big progress on the A/B testing framework

🥅 Goals:

Build up the testing infrastructure
- Unit tests
- Property tests
Start benchmarking work
Find and fix bugs

🚨 Blockers

None!

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will-corcoran · 2024-01-10T16:27:44Z

will-corcoran
Jan 10, 2024
Maintainer Author

Sprint 13 ➡️ 14: Jan 10th, 2024

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🫂 Quality of Life (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

👉 Nakamoto 0.3

⛓️ Nakamoto + 🧪 Testing WG

✅ Unlocks:

SIP Readiness for CAB Review
Interim milestones form now - Xe
Testing is dialed up : Mutation, Fuzzing, Benchmarking all in motion
Block Proposal Jan 15: At Risk
Block Validation Jan 15: On Track
StackerDB Jan 19
DKG|Signer Jan 31
PoX-4 Clarity Jan 31
Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Ashton for leading the SIP Readiness
Nikos for the first glimpses of Fuzzing
Matt for the multiple tests and envs he spun up to test , identify and help fix multiple bugs

🥅 Goals:

Block Proposal, Block Validation Readiness
Stacks-Signer Ready for testing
DKG, StackerDB Audit Kick Off
Benchmarking Results for Clarity Wasm and the Current VM

📝 Clarity WG

We're finally making decent head into the Big 3 PoX-4 updates with the first item merged in with unit tests. We also have the Clarity Unit test library setup in an external repository.

✅ Unlocks:

First of Big 3 PoX-4 changes merged in
Second change (signer-set update) is in draft & PR should be up by EOW
Clarity unit tests setup with working examples

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@MarvinJanssen for key registration, rust base tests & clarity unit base tests
@friedger for taking the initiative on multiple design improvements

🥅 Goals:

Continue transfer / re-write all PoX tests from sbtc-mini & Friedger's previous PR in Clarinet-SDK/Clarity
Continue merging-in the big three confirmed design changes to PoX-4:
1. Register Signer Keys
2. Update & Read Signer Set (in progress)
3. Vote Process For Aggregate PubKey (in progress)

🚨 Blockers

None!

💻 Clarity Wasm WG

✅ Unlocks:

🔎🐞 Bug finding and fixing mode in full effect
⚗️ Continued to expand property testing
⚙️ Managed testnet up and finding real world bugs

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🧪 @Acaccia for continuing to push and improve the property testing, and sharing this work for others to join in!
😱 @ameeratgithub for digging through the code and removing any potential panics
🐎 @ASuciuX @csgui @jbencin for taking on the benchmarking work

🥅 Goals:

Continue to increase property testing
Deploy a stacks-node that disables epoch gating and follows along with mainnet using Clarity Wasm to execute all transactions
Use ALEX suite of contracts to test managed testnet and get them all deployed and running correctly.
Benchmarking (timeline details TBD)

🚨 Blockers

None!

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will-corcoran · 2024-01-24T16:24:39Z

will-corcoran
Jan 24, 2024
Maintainer Author

Sprint 14 ➡️ 15: Jan 24th, 2024

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🫂 Quality of Life (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

👉 Nakamoto 0.3

⛓️ Nakamoto + 🧪 Testing WG

✅ Unlocks

CAB Review underway for the SIP
Initiated StackerDB Audits (@jcnelson to retag)
Block Validation : Done
Testing is dialed up : Mutation, Fuzzing, Benchmarking all in motion

🎏 Milestones, Status

🟡 Block Proposal initially slated for Jan 15, then Jan 22, is now targeted for Jan 31 and remains in a critical state.
StackerDB : Bug Fixes In Progress
🟡 Signer, previously expected by Jan 31, is now rescheduled to Feb 15 and is under close watch.
PoX-4 Clarity aimed for Jan 31.
Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Aaron for helping the Signer stream, this PR that tackles multiple issues.
Jeff and Alin, for delivering the inaugural benchmarking results.
Jude, for identifying critical gaps in StackerDB

🥅 Goals:

Block Proposal, Signer, DKG , pox-4 Readiness
Commencing audits for DKG and Wasm
Focusing on optimizations for the current Clarity VM, informed by recent profiling.

📝 Clarity WG

✅ Unlocks:

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🥅 Goals:

🚨 Blockers

💻 Clarity Wasm WG

✅ Unlocks:

🦟👏 Continuing to find and squash bugs
🥝 Fuzz testing started
☑️ Solid testing plan in place and progressing well

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🥝 @moodmosaic for working with us to set up Clarity fuzz testing
✍️ @csgui for creating issues and documenting testing work
🎃 @cylewitruk for being a jack-of-all-trades and helping with various tasks

🥅 Goals:

Continue property testing and fuzz testing
Finish cost-tracking and runtime error mapping
Fix bugs as they are found!

🛑 Blockers

None!

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will-corcoran · 2024-02-07T14:55:18Z

will-corcoran
Feb 7, 2024
Maintainer Author

Sprint 15 ➡️ 16: Feb 7th, 2024

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🔄 sBTC WG (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

👉 Nakamoto 0.3

⛓️ Nakamoto + 🧪 Testing WG

✅ Unlocks

Block Proposal Done 🟢
SIP Ready to vote!
Initial benchmark results are out and optimizations in progress! 🧪
Fuzzer is running on a VM against the VM
Audits have started! (StackerDB and DKG)

🎏 Milestones, Status

StackerDB : Bug Fixes In Progress
Signer, previously expected by Jan 31, is now rescheduled to Feb 15 and is under close watch.
PoX-4 Clarity expected by Jan 31, is now rescheduled to Feb 15 and the team is rallying to wrap it up
Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Ashton, Will, Brice for getting the SIP Ready to Vote
Hank for helping with the signer onboarding process

🥅 Goals:

Signer, DKG , pox-4 Readiness
Commencing audits for DKG, Wasm
Spin up a parallel public testnet

📝 Clarity WG

🌐 Summary

Last sprint we saw substantial progress on closing outstanding PoX-4 issues. However, as expected, this has led to a few more changes that we're urgently attending. We're in the final few days of code completion with the hopes of switching fully to testing by the end of this next sprint.

✅ Unlocks

Signers-voting.clar contract was successfully merged-in
Clarity Unit NPM package was published / ready to be merged-in

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@friedger for successfully merging-in the signers-voting.clar contract
@hstove for phenomenal work on adding signature logic to pox-4

🥅 Goals:

Near code-completion

🚨 Blockers

Cross-WG knowledge transfer & integrations

💻 Clarity Wasm WG

🌐 Summary

🦟👏 Continuing to find and squash bugs with property tests and crosscheck (comparison between VMs) tests
🔢 Discussion and initial planning for cost-tracking

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🏆 @Acaccia for leading the testing and bug-fixing efforts
🖲️ @krl for fixing bugs and taking on the cost-tracker

🥅 Goals:

Continue property testing and fuzz testing
Finish cost-tracking and runtime error mapping
Fix bugs as they are found!

🚨 Blockers

None!

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will-corcoran · 2024-02-26T17:57:19Z

will-corcoran
Feb 26, 2024
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Sprint 16 ➡️ 17: Feb 21st, 2024

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🤝 Business Development WG update
🤖 Bitcoin x AI (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

👉 Nakamoto 0.3 (Argon)
👉 Nakamoto SIP Voting Period
👉 Nakamoto Audits

⛓️ Nakamoto + 🧪 Testing WG

🎏 Milestones, Status

🟢 Block Proposal 👉 Done
🟢 Block Validator 👉 Done
🟢 PoX-4 👉 In Audit
🟢 StackerDB 👉 In Audit
🟡 DKG Libraries 👉 In Audit*
🟡 Signer Binary 👉 Final PR's in Review*
🟡 State Machine 👉 March 01

*tracking through some implementation and testing issues related to DKG / Signer interactions

✅ Unlocks

Initial optimizations show 40% improvement in Block Processing times! 🧪
Fuzzer set up in progress for pox-4 contract
Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Brice, Aaron for getting the [voter signing contract to track APK’s threshold] to the finish line!(Process successful .signers-voting results stacks-core#4360)
Jeff Bencin for finding a way(s) to improve block processing times by 40%!! This is a huge improvement, without even having to tweak the Clarity Interpretor yet!

🥅 Goals:

Signer, DKG , pox-4 Readiness
Commencing audits for DKG, Wasm
Spin up a parallel public testnet

📝 Clarity WG

🌐 Summary

This sprint we ran up to the very last Argon PR, which can be found here. The core focus of the group has been to assist @obycode in getting this PR over the finish line however possible. Additionally, we started formulating a testing plan & finally caught-up the design spec to the current design.

✅ Unlocks

On final Argon code-completion PR
Kicked-off comprehensive testing plan
Updated design spec for auditors

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@obycode for jumping in to get code completion across the finish line

🥅 Goals:

Finished testing document & assigned roles
Issues opened for NEON reqs

🚨 Blockers

None

💻 Clarity Wasm WG

🌐 Summary

🦟👏 Continuing to find and squash bugs with property tests and crosscheck tests
👨‍🔬 Researched and wrote up findings for cost-tracking implementation and testing

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🧪 @csgui for setting up the property testing cronjob to regularly run longer sessions of property testing
🐎 @cylewitruk for jumping into the performance discussions with lessons learned from the A/B tester

🥅 Goals:

Wrap up property testing and fuzz testing
Complete discussions and a PoC for the new cost-tracking design
Fix bugs as they are found!

🚨 Blockers

Need to get past a complicated merge from the latest next branch

🤖 Bitcoin x AI WG

✅ Unlocks

Unique Clarity invoice primitive with 402-gated API example
Base crewAI agent implementation connected to Stacks.js

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@Markeljan for PRs to both scripts and crew stacks-m2m repositories

🥅 Goals:

Implement aBTC with invoice primitive on testnet
Implement aBTC as gas on testnet
Add SIP-018 verification to gated API
Connect pay-invoice script to agent tooling
Create easy-to-clone template of Bitcoin AI Crew

🚨 Blockers

None

🤝 Business Development WG

✅ Unlocks:

Meaningful progress in adding more signers as part of the Nakamoto Launch over the last few weeks (LugaNodes, +2 more to be announced)

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@cuevasm on handling all these announcements with grace

🥅 Goals:

Finish rounding out the last strategic partners for the signer program
Bridge potentially locked 👀
Meetings in person with partners

🚨 Blockers

None

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will-corcoran · 2024-03-18T21:07:45Z

will-corcoran
Mar 18, 2024
Maintainer Author

Sprint 17 ➡️ 18: March 6th, 2024

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🤝 Business Development WG update
🤖 Bitcoin x AI (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

👉 Nakamoto 0.3 (Argon)
👉 Nakamoto SIP Voting Period
👉 Nakamoto Audits

⛓️ Nakamoto + 🧪 Testing WG

🎏 Milestones, Status

🟢 Block Proposal 👉 Done
🟢 Block Validator 👉 Done
🟢 PoX-4 👉 In Audit
🟢 StackerDB 👉 In Audit
🟡 DKG Libraries 👉 In Audit*
🟡 Signer Binary 👉 Final PR's in Review*
🟡 State Machine 👉 March 01

*tracking through some implementation and testing issues related to DKG / Signer interactions

📝 Clarity WG

🌐 Summary

This sprint we've continued adding items that slipped our design phase such as @hstove work on the explicit signer authorization on the amount a stacker can stack. Additionally, we progressed in testing work in preparation of a heavy month of testing.

✅ Unlocks

On final Argon code-completion PR
Kicked-off comprehensive testing plan
Updated design spec for auditors

🗣️ Shoutouts:

@hstove for contributing to code completion tasks
@BowTiedRadone for quickly hopping into testing

🥅 Goals:

Every tester/test-frame work churning out tests according to the testing plan: PoX-4/Boot Contracts Testing Plan stacks-core#4433
No more (zero) code completion items / pencils down

🤖 Bitcoin x AI WG

✅ Unlocks

new name for the project: stacks-m2m -> aibtcdev
new landing page and domain (https://aibtc.dev)
new hosted location for Gitbook docs
new hosted location for gated API
new github organization
new repository names (listed below)

stacks-m2m	aibtc.dev
crew	ai-agent-crew
scripts	agent-tools-ts
gated-api	gated-402-api
protocol	protocol-docs
contracts	smart-contracts

all project dependencies updated to latest versions
base crewAI agent implementation updated to illustrate CrewAI processes
- sequential: all tasks are completed in order, agents assigned to individual tasks
- hierarchical: all tasks are completed by a manager llm, who assigns and tasks other agents
- FYI: all tasks now require expected_output to be defined per latest CrewAI spec
AI agent tools updated with new abilities
- can now provide optional positional argument for tools (single for now)
- can provide wallet info, call read-only functions, and make public contract calls
the v2 Clarity invoice primitive updated to accept aiBTC on testnet
- aiBTC is a clone of ALEX aBTC, with open faucet functions for minting

🗣️ Shoutouts:

everyone in attendance to the working group meetings, the primitives are coming together!
the Bitcoin Unleashed for featuring us in a short segment on Bitcoin x AI
the Ready Layer 2 hackathon for including a Bitcoin x AI track for people to build

🥅 Goals:

implement aBTC as gas on testnet (example)
add SIP-018 verification to gated API and agent tools
implement new CrewAI tooling, including search and RAG
create easy-to-clone template of Bitcoin AI Crew

🤝 Business Development WG

✅ Unlocks:

Signers are live!!! https://cointelegraph.com/news/stacks-welcomes-new-signers-blockdaemon-near-foundation-bitcoin-surge
Welcome Blockdaemon, Near Foundation, DeSpread, Luxor, Chorus One, Kiln, Restake, and Alum Labs.
Hosting ETH Denver appreciation dinner for our earliest signers

🗣️ Shoutouts:

Entire BD WG, it takes a village to get each one of these deals across the line.

🥅 Goals:

Developing further with Stablecoin partners
Aligning liquidity for existing bridges like All bridge aeUSDC to support builders in the ecosystem
A few more strategic signer partners
Integration work with another bridge partner

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will-corcoran · 2024-03-18T21:08:03Z

will-corcoran
Mar 18, 2024
Maintainer Author

Sprint 18 ➡️ 19: March 20th, 2024

🔗 Links to Full Sprint Sync Threads

⛓️ Blockchain / Nakamoto WG (update)
💻 Clarity Wasm WG (update)
📝 Clarity WG (update)
🤝 Business Development WG update
🤖 Bitcoin x AI (update)

📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

👉 Nakamoto 0.3 (Argon)
👉 Nakamoto SIP Voting Period
👉 Nakamoto Audits

⛓️ Nakamoto + 🧪 Testing WG

🎏 Milestones, Status

🟢 Block Proposal 👉 Done
🟢 Block Validator 👉 Done
🟢 PoX-4 👉 In Audit
🟢 StackerDB 👉 In Audit
🟡 DKG Libraries 👉 In Audit*
🟡 Signer Binary 👉 Final PR's in Review*
🟡 State Machine 👉 March 01

*tracking through some implementation and testing issues related to DKG / Signer interactions

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will-corcoran Oct 15, 2023 Maintainer

Sprint 7 ➡️ 8: October 17th, 2023

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🥅 Sprint 8: Teamwork Goals

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Sprint 8 ➡️ 9: October 31st, 2023

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🥅 Sprint 9: Teamwork Goals

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will-corcoran Oct 30, 2023 Maintainer Author

Sprint 9 ➡️ 10: November 14th, 2023

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🚢 Sprint 10: Shipping Goals

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🥅 Sprint 10: Teamwork Goals

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will-corcoran Nov 13, 2023 Maintainer Author

Sprint 10 ➡️ 11: November 28th, 2023

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📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

Project Planning

⛓️ Nakamoto + Testing WG

✅ Sprint 10: Unlocks

🗣️ Shoutouts:

🥅 Sprint 11: Goals

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📝 Clarity WG

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🥅 Sprint 11: Goals

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Sprint 11 ➡️ 12: December 13th, 2023

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📈 Sprint Sync TL;DR

⛓️ Nakamoto + Testing WG

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